August 26, 2019
Transitional Period Agreement in Sudan: Opportunities for Success and Threats of Failure
There remain serious obstacles on the road to secession by Yemen's Southern Transitional Council, especially the contrary aims and programs in the various southern governorates of the country.
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Conflict in Aden: Implications of the Pro-Hadi Forces’ Defeat
There remain serious obstacles on the road to secession by Yemen's Southern Transitional Council, especially the contrary aims and programs in the various southern governorates of the country.
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Tunisia Struggles to Project Foreign Policy Independence
Tunisia’s leaders would do well to balance their hopes for democracy and human rights with the pragmatic exigencies of an independent foreign policy that protects the country’s basic interests.
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Should the United States Include Israel in the Gulf Maritime Coalition?
Washington’s decision to include Israel in the US-led maritime Gulf coalition might expand the theater of conflict between Israel and Iran, weaken Gulf allies, and complicate US efforts to safeguard international navigation in the Strait...
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Positive Economic Growth in Egypt Belies Mounting Problems
Opening up the political and economic systems in Egypt would allow for sustained private sector growth and a free flow of ideas—and criticism—that would keep the public sector accountable.
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Changes in UAE Policy: Reasons and Motivations
he UAE considers this as the right moment to distance itself from confrontation, anticipating US-Iranian negotiations that might leave it to harvest the fruits of escalation with Iran alone.
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The Drama since Manama: Kushner’s Failed Initiative
Jared Kushner’s latest trip to the Middle East appears to have failed in charting a way forward for the Trump Administration’s illusive peace deal between Palestinians and Israelis.
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In Saudi Arabia, Covering the Khashoggi Murder Is a State Affair
Over the last decade, stories about the potential for freedom of the press in the Arab world have alternated between hopeful and hopeless. The 2011 Arab uprisings were a turning point for activists, but regime...
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